Work with Images
Convert, render, read and screen images from your own backend: HEIC and WebP conversion, HTML social cards, OCR on receipts and scans, and moderation of user uploads.
Work with Images badgeComplete all 4 lessons to earn it. About 2.2 hours.
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What you'll be able to do
- Convert phone HEIC photos, WebP and SVG into the format each destination needs
- Render HTML and Markdown into Open Graph cards and receipt images
- Extract and clean text from photos, receipts and scanned PDFs with OCR
- Screen user uploads for NSFW content and faces before they go public
- Handle uploads, expiring download links and per-plan size limits correctly
This course is one of three skill areas on exam APV-230, APIVerve Certified Developer: Document Automation: 10 of its 30 questions. See the full path
Syllabus
- Convert HEIC, WebP and SVG into the format you needStart hereConvert iPhone HEIC photos to JPG, WebP to PNG and SVG to PNG with an image converter API. Multipart uploads, resizing and quality in Node and Python.
- Render HTML and Markdown into social cards and receiptsGenerate Open Graph images, social cards and receipt images from HTML or Markdown with an HTML to image API, with caching and safe templates in Node and Python.
- Extract text from images and scans with OCRUse an OCR API to extract text from photos, receipts and scanned PDFs in Node and Python, then clean the output and measure accuracy on your own documents.
- Screen, describe and clean up user-uploaded imagesScreen user uploads with NSFW image detection and face detection, draft alt text with image captioning and remove backgrounds, with privacy built in.